Stepwise ionization of hydroquinone vapor by monochromatic radiation

Processes of stepwise ionization of hydroquinone vapor by radiation in the range 315–275 nm were studied using photoionization spectroscopy techniques. The two-step ionization process yielding molecular ions was found to prevail at a laser power density up to ∼10⁷ W/cm². As the radiation intensity increases, the progressively stronger and deeper degradation takes place via dissociation of the molecular and, probably, fragment ions due to absorption of at least one additional photon. The slow process of the formation of C₅H₆O⁰ ions at an effective rate constant of the order of 10⁶ s⁻¹ was observed.     

Photochemical inactivation of trypsin

Abstract —The quantum yield for inactivation of aqueous trypsin fits the expression φ_f=Σ_rf_rφ‘_r, where f_r, is the fraction of incident light absorbed by residues of type r and the φ’_r are constants. The values φ‘_trp= 0.012, φ_tyr= 0.005 and φ’_eys= 0.10, obtained at pH 3 in the wavelength range 240–290 nm, are attributed to independent events by comparing with quantum yields of the initial photochemical products and permanent residue destruction. The proposed inactivating processes are photoionization of one essential tryptophyl residue, photolysis of one essential cystyl residue, and splitting of an essential cystyl residue induced by light absorption in a nearby tyrosyl residue. The initial photochemical process from pH 3–7 identified by flash photolysis is the ejection of electrons from approximately two tryptophyl residues, leading to the formation of the disulfide bridge electron adduct and the hydrated electron. It is proposed that one photoionized tryptophyl residue is permanently disrupted and the other is restored through a back reaction that leads to a damaged, active enzyme form. An enhanced inactivation quantum yield at flash photolysis light intensities is attributed to a biphotonic process. A model based on one-photon photoionization of tryptophan from a short-lived precursor of the fluorescent state and the biphotonic photoionization of tryptophan via the triplet state is consistent with the experimental results.     

Specificity of the redox photoreaction of dimers of thiadicarbocyanine dyes

The primary steps of the redox reaction of dimers of the thiadicarbocyanine dye and its 5,5′-dichloro derivative in aqueous solutions were studied in the presence of 4-nitroacetophenone, ascorbic acid, or hydroquinone. In water the dye molecules (anion, M^?) mainly exist as dimers M₂ ^2?. The laser pulse irradiation (10 ns, 532 nm) results in the population of the lowest triplet level M₂ ^2?, whose depletion occurs due to both intersystem crossing to the ground state and photoinduced transition to the highest triplet state of the dimer followed by photoionization. Photoionization at low intensities of a laser pulse proceeds via the one-quantum mechanism going to the two-quantum mechanism with an increase in the laser pulse intensity. The photooxidation of the dimer in the lowest triplet state with 4-nitroacetophenone results in the formation of unstable radical anion M₂ ^?· that spontaneously dissociates to monomer M^? and radical M^· of the dye. In the presence of electron donors (ascorbic acid, hydroquinone), the dimers in the triplet state are not photoreduced, but the electron donors reduce M₂ ^?· and M^· to the dye dimer and monomer, respectively.     

Saturable absorption dynamics in the triplet system and triplet excitation induced singlet fluorescence of some organic molecules

The triplet saturable absorption behaviour of the xanthene dyes eosin Y, erythrosin B, and rose bengal and of the fullerene molecule C₇₀ is studied. The molecules are excited to the S₁-state by intense picosecond pulses (wavelength λ_P=527 nm). They relax dominantly to the triplet system by intersystem crossing. The triplet–triplet saturable absorption is investigated with time-delayed intense picosecond pulses (wavelength λ_L=1054 nm) in the transparency region of the molecules in the singlet ground state. Higher excited-state triplet absorption cross-sections and higher excited-state triplet relaxation times are determined by numerical simulation of the experimental results. Time-resolved fluorescence measurements reveal higher excited-state triplet to singlet back-intersystem-crossing and multi-step triplet photoionization. Additionally the two-photon absorption cross-sections at λ_L=1054 nm are determined by measurement of the fundamental pulse two-photon induced fluorescence relative to the second-harmonic pulse single-photon induced fluorescence.     

Vibrational energy dependence of line broadening in the quinoxaline spectrum

The linewidths as a function of the number of quanta of the totally symmetric progression forming mode, 525 cm^?1 (509 - quinoxaline-d₆) have been measured at high resolution in the vapor phase absorption spectrum of quinoxaline. The line broadening is attributed to efficient intersystem crossing between the lowest single (nπ*) and triplet (ππ*) states. The increased broadening observed with increased energy is consistent with theoretical predictions and with the general results of parallel lifetime studies of individual vibronic levels.     

Two-photon absorption coefficient in p-terphenyl crystal determined through three-photon carrier generation

Charge carrier generation in p-terphenyl crystal is studied employing pulsed excitation with a dye laser. The number of photogenerated cariers is found to be proportional to I³, where I is the intensity of the exciting light at 590 nm. The fluorescence intensity is proportional to I² under the same conditions. The results are interpreted in terms of the photoionization of two-photon excited singlet excitons. A coefficient of (2.1 ± 0.8) × 10^?50 cm⁴ s/photon for the two-photon absorption at 5 90 nm in p-terphenyl crystal is obtained.     

PRIMARY INTERMEDIATES IN THE PULSED IRRADIATION OF RETINOIDS

Abstract Laser flash photolysis and pulse radiolysis have led to the characterisation of several shortlived intermediates formed after irradiation of retinoic acid and retinyl acetate in hexane or methanol. For retinoic acid, the triplet state, wavelength maximum 440 nm, extinction coefficient 7.3 × 10⁴ dm³ mol^?1 cm^?1, decay constant 6.2 × 10⁵ s^?1, is formed with a quantum yield of 0.012 for 347 nm excitation. The radical cation, absorption maximum 590 nm, extinction coefficient ～7 × 10⁴ dm³mol^?1 cm^?1, is formed in a biphotonic process. The radical anion, absorption maximum 510nm in hexane, 480 nm in methanol where its extinction coefficient is 1.2 × 10⁵ dm³mol^?1 cm^?1, appears to decay partially in methanol into another longer-lived neutral radical, wavelength maximum 420 nm, by loss of OH^?. For retinyl acetate, the triplet state, absorption maximum 395 nm, extinction coefficient 7.9 × 10⁴dm³mol^?1 cm^?1, decay constant 1.2 × 10⁶s^?1 is formed with a quantum yield of 0.025 for 347 nm excitation. Monophotonic photoelimination of OCOCH₃? in methanol produces the retinylic carbenium ion, wavelength maximum 590 nm, whose decay is enhanced by ammonia, k ～ 2 × 10⁶ dm³ mol^?1 s^?1 and retarded by water. The radical cation also has a wavelength maximum at 590 nm, its extinction coefficient being ～ 1.0 × 10⁵ dm³mol¹ cm^?1. The long-lived transient absorption with maximum at 385 nm, extinction coefficient 1.0 × 10⁵ dm³mol^?1 cm^?1, obtained from the reaction of the solvated electron with retinyl acetate in methanol may be due to either the radical anion itself or more likely the radical resulting from elimination of OCOCH₃? from this anion. These results suggest that skin photosensitivity caused by retinyl acetate might be greater than that due to retinoic acid.     

A model of energy transfer to noble gas atoms due to forced resonance within a continuum of plasmon excitation by intense laser pulses

We have developed and applied a model of energy transfer to noble gas atoms due to a resonance mechanism within a continuum of plasmon oscillation induced by intense laser pulses. The model is based on a generalization to 3D of the 1D many-body RPA method of Tomonaga. Total cross sections for laser energy absorption, the saturation intensities for ionization, mean energy transfer and degree of ionization of several noble gases, Xe, Kr, Ar, Ne are obtained for λ = 193 nm and λ = 1064 nm for a short Gaussian laser pulse. Probability distribution of absorption of a given number of photons in Xe is also obtained for λ = 193 nm andI ₀ = 10¹⁴ W/cm². The results are consistent with the rapid energy transfer necessary for multiple ionization at these frequencies.     

THE STEPWISE BIPHOTONIC PHOTOIONIZATION OF CHLORPROMAZINE AS SEEN BY LASER FLASH PHOTOLYSIS

It is generally accepted that both promazine (PZ) and chlorpromazine (CPZ) photionize monophotonically to their respective cation radicals and the corresponding hydrated electrons. It is also supposed that this photoinization has a role in the phototoxic effects of these drugs. However, using laser flash photolysis, we have observed that photoionization of CPZ during S1 excitation (lambda greater than 300 nm) is a stepwise biphotonic process. In the case of PZ our flash photolysis results are less clearcut, but are consistent with stepwise biphotonic photoionization for S1 excitation. We demonstrate, using computer simulation of the intramolecular kinetics, that the estimated triplet state lifetime of CPZ is sufficiently long (23 ns at room temperature) to account for the apparent monophotonic photoionization that has been observed by others at high light intensities and short pulse times. Our laser flash photolysis results also suggest that the photo-ionization mechanism of PZ and CPZ is wavelength-dependent. Both drugs exhibit apparent monophotonic photoionization when they are excited at 266 nm under conditions of laser pulse width and intensity similar to those at 355 nm. We suggest that photoionization is not an important mechanism in the observed phototoxic and photoallergic effects of PZ and CPZ in sunlight.     

二氟沙星在中性水溶液中的光化学性质

对二氟沙星在中性水溶液中的光化学性质进行了研究. 在pH值为7.17 的水溶液中二氟沙星的紫外吸收峰位于273 nm (摩尔消光系数ε=33000 dm³·mol^-1·cm^-1), 323 nm (ε=15500 dm³·mol^-1·cm^-1), 335 nm (ε=15500 dm³·mol^-1·cm^-1)处. 荧光吸收和发射光谱均显示二氟沙星具有pH效应, 其pK_a(电离平衡常数)测定分别为5.9 和9.8. 二氟沙星的荧光量子产额较低, 在pH=3.00 时达到最大值, 为0.06. 同时对二氟沙星在中性水溶液中的激光光解和脉冲辐解进行详细研究. 激光光解研究发现在水溶液中二氟沙星的三重激发态位于620nm, 其摩尔消光系数为7900 dm³·mol^-1·cm^-1. 通过能量转移的方法得到其三重激发态的能量为263.5 kJ·mol^-1,三重激发态的量子产额为0.21. 在激光激发下, 二氟沙星进行单光子电离其量子产额为0.02. 脉冲辐解研究表明二氟沙星可以与水合电子(e_aq^-)及羟基自由基(·OH)快速反应, 其二级反应动力学常数分别为1.72×10¹⁰和1.0×10¹⁰ dm³·mol^-1·s^-1. 本文对二氟沙星光化学性质的研究有助于确定其光敏毒性的产生机理.     

Long-Lived Triplet Excited State Accessed with Spin–Orbit Charge Transfer Intersystem Crossing in Red Light-Absorbing Phenoxazine-Styryl BODIPY Electron Donor/Acceptor Dyads

Orthogonal phenoxazine-styryl BODIPY compact electron donor/acceptor dyads were prepared as heavy atom-free triplet photosensitizers (PSs) with strong red light absorption (ϵ=1.33×10⁵ M⁻¹ cm⁻¹ at 630 nm), whereas the previously reported triplet photosensitizers based on the spin-orbit charge transfer intersystem crossing (SOCT-ISC) mechanism show absorption in a shorter wavelength range (<500 nm). More importantly, a long-lived triplet state (τ_T=333 μs) was observed for the new dyads. In comparison, the triplet state lifetime of the same chromophore accessed with the conventional heavy atom effect (HAE) is much shorter (τ_T=1.8 μs). Long triplet state lifetime is beneficial to enhance electron or energy transfer, the primary photophysical processes in the application of triplet PSs. Our approach is based on SOCT-ISC, without invoking of the HAE, which may shorten the triplet state lifetime. We used bisstyrylBodipy both as the electron acceptor and the visible light-harvesting chromophore, which shows red-light absorption. Femtosecond transient absorption spectra indicated the charge separation (109 ps) and SOCT-ISC (charge recombination, CR; 2.3 ns) for BDP-1 . ISC efficiency of BDP-1 was determined as Φ_T=25 % (in toluene). The dyad BDP-3 was used as triplet PS for triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion (upconversion quantum yield Φ_UC=1.5 %; anti-Stokes shift is 5900 cm⁻¹).     

A novel and efficient excitation- and ionization-scheme for laser resonance ionization of mercury

A novel, efficient scheme for mercury atomic resonance ionization is proposed and experimentally studied with wavelengths λ₁=254 nm, λ₂=313 nm and λ₃=626 nm. The cross-sections of mercury photoionization from different excited states were estimated using a new imaging method of resonance ionization signal measurement. Almost 100% efficiency of Hg resonance ionization was achieved using the first harmonic of a dye laser at 626 nm to ionize mercury atoms excited into the 6³D₂ state. The photoionization cross-section from this state was found to be 1.5×10⁻¹⁸ cm². Suppression of the ionization signal by coherent effects (electromagnetically-induced transparency) and the efficiency of resonance ionization were also studied.     

Experimental study of triplet exciton diffusion in diphenyl and benzophenone crystals

Biphenyl crystals to which have been added to 10^?2 mole/mole of benzophenone and a various concentration of naphthalene, excited by radiation absorbed only by benzophenone molecules give naphthalene phosphorescence. This emission is interpreted as a consequence of energy migration from benzophenone molecules to the naphthalene molecules through the triplet exciton band of biphenyl. From the study, at 120 K, of the intensity of the naphthalene phosphorescence dependence on concentrations, a coefficient of diffusion of triplet excitons of biphenyl is measured (D ≈ 10^?6 cm² s^?1). Analogous kinetics applied to binary mixed crystals, naphthalene-benzophenone, give a coefficient of diffusion of triplet excitions for benzophenone (D ≈ 10^?7 cm² s^?1).     

Photoionization of Ru(bpy)32+ ions in aqueous solutions containing sodium dodecyl sulfate. Influence of ion binding

Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) augments the yield of biphotonic ionization of tris-2,2′-bipyridyl ruthenium(II) ions (3.75×10⁻⁵ mol dm⁻³) in aqueous solution at room temperature to different extents at two different concentration ranges: by a factor 4 at [SDS] just below the critical concentration for precipitation (4.5×10⁻⁴ mol dm⁻³) and by a factor 1.4 at [SDS] above the critical micellar concentration (8×10⁻³ mol dm⁻³). The augmentation of the photoionization yield is explained in terms of ion binding, i.e. electrostatic interaction between Ru(bpy)₃²⁺ ions and dodecyl sulfate ions which results in a partial charge neutralization with the consequence of a decrease in the ionization potential.     

Photoelectric evidence for a neutral excited state in fully polymerized polydiacetylene-p-(toluenesulfonate) single crystals

The intensity dependence of photocurrent transients excited by the 1.06 μ line of a Nd laser has been measured. Observation of an I² and an I³ branch indicate that charge carriers can be generated via two-quantum absorption and that at high intensities photoionization of a neutral excited state with a lifetime of the order 10^?10 s dominates.     

Electron impact and single photon ionization cross sections of neutral silver clusters

Neutral silver atoms and small clusters Ag _n (n=1...4) were generated by sputtering, i.e. by bombarding a polycrystalline silver surface with Ar⁺ ions of 5 keV. The sputtered particles were ionized by a crossed electron beam and subsequently detected by a quadrupole mass spectrometer. In alternative to the electron impact ionization, the same neutral species were also ionized by single photon absorption from a pulsed VUV laser (photon energy 7.9 eV), and the photoionization cross sections were evaluated from the laser intensity dependence of the measured signals. By in situ combining both ionization mechanisms, absolute values of the ratio σ _e (Ag _n )/σ _e (Ag) between the electron impact ionization cross sections of silver clusters and atoms could be determined for a fixed electron energy of 46 eV. These values can then be used to calibrate previously measured relative ionization functions. By calibrating the results using literature data measured for silver atoms, we present absolute cross sections for electron impact ionization of neutral Ag₂, Ag₃ and Ag₄ as a function of the electron energy between threshold and 125 eV.     

Optically modified mass spectra of CO2

The optically modified mass spectra of CO₂ has been studied with respect to various experimental parameters. The proposed mechanism of ionization is photoionization from electron impact excited states of the neutral CO₂. An estimate for the cross section is 1.5 × 10^?16 cm².     

Ionization of lithium vapor byCW quasiresonant laser light

We report measurements of the excitation and ionization of dense lithium vapor irradiated byCW dye laser light scanning the 2² P?3² D lithium atomic transition at 610.3 nm. Lithium vapor with a density of 8×10¹⁶ cm^?3 was ionized by a focused beam with as little as 1 mW of single-frequency laser power. The ionization mechanism has been studied and found to consist of a three stage process in which both atomic and molecular absorption of the laser power, two distinct collisional processes, and single-photon ionization of excited lithium atoms all play essential roles.     

Triplet excited-state characterization and determination of the photoionization mechanism of the antitumoral drug pazelliptine

The triplet properties of the excited triplet state of pazelliptine (PZE), an antitumoral drug derived from ellipticine, were investigated in dioxane, ethanol and buffer aqueous solutions using the laser flash photolysis technique. The triplet absorption spectra and the kinetic parameters associated with the excited state decay were quite similar in the different solvents. ³PZE reacted with unexcited PZE in deaerated solutions (k = 6 × 10¹⁰ M⁻¹ s⁻¹) and was quenched by oxygen (k ≈ 2 × 10⁷ s⁻¹). The extinction coefficients of the triplet transition were estimated and used to calculate the singlet-triplet intersystem crossing quantum yields of about 5%.

A biphotonic ionization of PZE in buffer aqueous solution has been demonstrated in a previous work. This process was also observed in ethanol but not in dioxane. Mixed yttrium aluminum garnet laser harmonics (355 nm + 532 nm) and delayed-pulse experiments were carried out in order to determine the intermediate excited state involved in this photoionization process. The results indicate that pazelliptine radical cation and e⁻_s are formed via a consecutive two-photon absoprtion in which the first excited singlet state is the only intermediate.     

Non-linear absorption and photoionization in the pulsed laser photolysis of anthracene

The 347 nm pulsed laser photolysis of anthracene in cyclohexane and methanol gives rise to non-linear effects which are characterized by increased absorption with increasing laser intensity. A kinetic model which incorporates biphotonic ionization via the relaxed lowest excited singlet state accounts not only for the non-linear absorption behavior, but also for the variation of triplet yields with intensity and consequences of the presence of oxygen.